store and retrieve a class object in shared preference

we can use Outputstream to output our Object to internal memory. And convert to string then save in preference. For example:

    mPrefs = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor ed = mPrefs.edit();
    ByteArrayOutputStream arrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    ObjectOutputStream objectOutput;
    try {
        objectOutput = new ObjectOutputStream(arrayOutputStream);
        objectOutput.writeObject(object);
        byte[] data = arrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
        objectOutput.close();
        arrayOutputStream.close();

        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        Base64OutputStream b64 = new Base64OutputStream(out, Base64.DEFAULT);
        b64.write(data);
        b64.close();
        out.close();

        ed.putString(key, new String(out.toByteArray()));

        ed.commit();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

when we need to extract Object from Preference. Use the code as below

    byte[] bytes = mPrefs.getString(indexName, "{}").getBytes();
    if (bytes.length == 0) {
        return null;
    }
    ByteArrayInputStream byteArray = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
    Base64InputStream base64InputStream = new Base64InputStream(byteArray, Base64.DEFAULT);
    ObjectInputStream in;
    in = new ObjectInputStream(base64InputStream);
    MyObject myObject = (MyObject) in.readObject();

Yes we can do this using Gson

Download Working code from GitHub

SharedPreferences mPrefs = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE);

For save

Editor prefsEditor = mPrefs.edit();
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(myObject); // myObject - instance of MyObject
prefsEditor.putString("MyObject", json);
prefsEditor.commit();

For get

Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = mPrefs.getString("MyObject", "");
MyObject obj = gson.fromJson(json, MyObject.class);

Update1

The latest version of GSON can be downloaded from github.com/google/gson.

Update2

If you are using Gradle/Android Studio just put following in build.gradle dependencies section -

implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.6.2'